Board of Aldermen 03-09-2021 Page 12
So | am glad to see, as Alderman Schmidt brought up, the project arching towards completion after its 11 year
history. And | think Alderman Jette does bring up a great point in putting forward this amendment and | would
like to explore further how we directly apply that in a way that is most responsible to taxpayers.
President Wilshire
Thank you, anyone else? On the motion to amend? Alderman O’Brien.
Alderman O’Brien
| do have — just on the question is this just taking questions on the amendment right now?
President Wilshire
No.
Alderman O’Brien
Ok, thank you, Madam President. | would just like to say that although | would like to go and support the soccer
community which | do and | will support this. | was never, from the very beginning, very comfortable with
soccer fields over a particular brown field. | Know it’s very limited but John Mansfield did manufacture asbestos,
there is asbestos on-site, it is a brown field and | know in Ward 9 we do have some areas that are
encapsulated, that it taken care of. We do have to maintain that so | am glad we are avoiding putting a field
where children would use over a brown field.
But | would also want to do due diligence and say when we are looking at money such as this, everybody in
the City all your Wards, Park & Recreation has taken care of your individual parks. There is one remaining at
that is St. Andrew’s Field in Ward 9. And | am sure | share the stage with my fellow compadre from Ward 9,
Representative Harriott-Gathright that | do hope as we move on in the future, that we do not forget St.
Andrew’s Field, the one and the only remaining park that has not been rejuvenated. So thank you, Madam
President.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
And | agree because when Nick left ...
(Interference / Overlapping Conversation)
President Wilshire
Alright one at a time, please.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
Sorry.
President Wilshire
Alderman Clemons?
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